Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).

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    Once teleportation exist, so do replicators and all costs apart from energy costs disappear.

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        With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.

        In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.